In his new book, “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines,” Roger Bate explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

In this Bradley Lecture, Francis Fukuyama will discuss how understanding the difficulties societies have had with the institution-building process can give us a greater appreciation for the problems of today's weak states.

At this Bradley Lecture, Walter Russell Mead will discuss why the core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the 60 years after the New Deal don’t work anymore.

Nicolas Sarkozy's pro-American views are a cause for celebration.

At this Bradley Lecture, Charles Murray will discuss how the divergence in class is affecting American life and what we can expect in the future.

Wine, it turns out, may be more fun to invest in than to drink.

How should al Qaeda terrorist suspects held in Western detention be brought to justice? In his new book, "Justice and the Enemy" (PublicAffairs, 2012), British author William Shawcross describes how the lessons of the past can direct us in confronting our enemies today.